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Sanjay's widowed wife, Maneka Gandhi, barely 25-years-old at the time, helplessly saw Indira Gandhi passing Sanjay Gandhi's legacy to Rajiv.
Being less than 25, she could not contest for the Lok Sabha seat right then.
"The note of discord was struck by Maneka, who saw with displeasure how her husband’s legacy was snatched away from her by his brother," Spanish writer Javier Moro noted in his book The Red Sari.
Rajiv's win in Amethi in the 1981 bye-polls and his subsequent climb into the party, under his mother's careful watch, hurt Maneka's political ambitions.
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The tipping point came when Sanjay's young widow attended a convention in Lucknow organised by Akbar Ahmed, her late husband's confidante.
The family, including the children, faced security threats from extremists of the Sikh community because of which Rahul and his sister Priyanka did the rest of their schooling from home. These assemblies are in Bachhrawan, Harchandpur, Raebareli, Sareni, and Unchahar.
Raebareli Lok Sabha Election Result
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi won the Raebareli seat by defeating BJP's Dinesh Pratap Singh with a margin of 3,90,030 votes.
Voting for Raebareli Lok Sabha constituency took place on May 20, the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections 2024.
He portrayed himself as the uniter of the country in his first interview with the foreign media.
Swamy claims that the Gandhis took over Associated Journals Limited (AJL), the National Herald publishing house founded by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1937, to try to acquire property assets worth more than 20 billion rupees using party funds. Rahul Gandhi’s initial schooling was in St. Columba’s School in Delhi. Thereafter, he, during a speech at the Georgetown University, claimed that the Congress would end the reservation system in India once “India become fairer.” He then apologised and clarified that his statement was taken out of context.
Rahul Gandhi with Ilhan Omar (second from the right)
- A complaint was lodged against Rahul by the BJP in December 2024 after he allegedly manhandled and injured two MPs from the BJP in the parliament after a heated argument on B.
R. Ambedkar. He subsequently became the Prime Minister of India. He doesn’t like jackfruit and peas, and his favourite eating zones are Moti Mahal in Delhi, Sagar, Swagat, and Sarvana Bhavan.
- He is a black belt in Aikido, a modern Japanese martial art. On 7 July 2023, Justice Hemant Prachchhak of the Gujarat High Court, while delivering the verdict, denied any request to suspend his conviction.
He faced severe criticism when his name did not match with the one mentioned in the official documents.
- He was strongly condemned for his comment- Hindu extremism is more dangerous than Islamic militancy.
- Rahul, along with his friends, has faced allegations for raping a girl in Uttar Pradesh.
Raebareli, Amethi Lok Sabha Election Results: Rahul Gandhi Wins In Raebareli, Smriti Irani Loses In Amethi
Congress's Rahul Gandhi was in the fray in family bastion Raebareli, while BJP's Smriti Irani was seeking re-election from Amethi, where she defeated Rahul Gandhi in 2019
Rahul Gandhi (L), Smriti Iran
Rahul Gandhi (L), Smriti Iran
Raebareli and Amethi Lok Sabha seats of Uttar Pradesh witnessed a high-stakes battle for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the INDIA bloc, with both fielding their top leaders to take on each other.
Congress's Rahul Gandhi was in the fray in family bastion Raebareli, while BJP's Smriti Irani was seeking re-election from Amethi, where she defeated Rahul Gandhi in 2019.
Raebareli constituency is made up of five assembly constituency segments.
His loyalists remained loyal - Mummy wants to divide and rule, pit people against each other, rule through dummies, what else can she expect but total disarray?" Maneka Gandhi told a friend in 1981, according to an India Today magazine report.
The rift between the two, Maneka Gandhi and Indira Gandhi, increased so much that it became difficult for both of them to live together under one roof, according to famed author Khushwant Singh's autobiography.
AMETHI, AFTER THE GANDHI FAMILY SPLIT
After leaving the Prime Minister's house, Menaka, determined to take over Sanjay's political legacy, founded the Rashtriya Sanjay Manch along with Akbar Ahmad,the organiser of the 1982 Lucknow Convention.
To fight Rajiv Gandhi, whom she saw latching on to her husband's legacy, Maneka took the fight to Amethi, the seat which was denied to her in 1981.
She contested the 1984 Lok Sabha elections as an Independent candidate from Amethi against Rajiv Gandhi but was defeated badly, with Rajiv getting over 84% votes.
His grandmother, Indira Gandhi, the first and only woman Prime Minister of India, was a very influential and powerful lady. Gandhi stands disqualified from the membership of Lok Sabha from the date of his conviction, as per the terms of Article 102 (1)(e) of the Constitution and Section 8 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951.”
Following Supreme Court’s stay on his conviction in the ‘Modi surname’ case, his disqualification as a Lok Sabha member was revoked by the Lok Sabha secretariat on 7 August 2023.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge will be here..."
Although Yogendra Mishra asserted KL Sharma to be a family member, he did not reveal why Rahul Gandhi was shifted to Raebareli and Amethi was deserted by the Gandhi family.
Whatever the logic and reason, some viewed Rahul Gandhi's absence from Amethi as a face-saving exit, while some hailed it as a masterstroke by the party.
Anyway, the Congress fielding no Gandhi at Amethi certainly gives an opportunity to look back and find out how a fight in and over Amethi was responsible for an irreparable division in the Nehru-Gandhi family, that exists to date.
WHEN AMETHI SPLIT THE NEHRU-GANDHI FAMILY
Although the Congress had been winning Amethi since 1967, when the constituency was created, it lost the seat in the 1977 Lok Sabha election when the opposition's makeshift Janata Party formed the government, following the Emergency.
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Soon after, in 1980, Amethi voted for Sanjay Gandhi, and made him the first of the Nehru-Gandhi family to win the seat, months before his death.
There is no resentment amongst the workers... He contested the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from the Wayanad seat in Kerala, winning against CPI’s Annie Raja by a margin of 3,64,422 votes, and the Rae Bareli seat in Uttar Pradesh, winning against the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Dinesh Pratap Singh by a margin of 3,90,030 votes. He subsequently became the Prime Minister of India.
AJL owed Congress an accumulated debt of 900 million rupees when the National Herald was shut down in 2008. His mother, Sonia Gandhi, originally hails from Italy and now holds an Indian citizenship. The announcement hold-up, which caused quite a commotion, and was only done on the last day of the nomination, April 3.
While rumours mounted regarding the Grand Old Party's plans to field both Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to run for Amethi and Raebareli, some speculated that both might exchange seats.
In the meantime, posters bearing "Robert Vadra Ab Ki Baar" coming up in Amethi before the nominations fuelled another rumour, the entry of Priyanka Gnadhi Vadra's husband, business person Robert Vadra, into politics.
However, none of the above happened and party loyalist KL Sharma was named from Amethi.
While Priyanka Gandhi Vadra called KL Sharma's nomination an ideal "sewa ki rajneeti (the politics of service)" for the country, Rahul's Amethi nemesis, Smriti Irani took a dig at the former, asking, "The one who left Amethi for Wayanad, can’t belong to Raebareli.